Posted on Apr 29th, 2010 |
A new act, propelled by two Minnesota senators, seeks to improve the plight of those suffering from eating disorders and prevent future cases. The Freed Act would allocate research money to the National Institutes of Health to better investigate the causes of eating disorders and improve treatment methods. The research would also seek to improve public data on eating disorders, including morbidity and mortality rates.
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Posted on Mar 24th, 2010 |
We are all encouraged to follow a healthy diet, but some people take it too far, limiting their diets to food that they consider to be pure to the exclusion of everything else. Some of them end up with orthorexia—a severe eating disorder.
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Posted on Mar 6th, 2010 |
Fifty-four percent of women would rather be hit by a truck than be fat, so it’s no wonder that nearly 10 million females (and 1 million males) in the U.S. are battling eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, while millions more suffer from binge eating disorder. According to the University of Virginia’s website, studies show that on college campuses, approximately 60 percent of women students have “disordered eating,” and about 20 percent of college students already have had, or are currently living with, an eating disorder.
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Posted on Feb 17th, 2010 |
About 10 million women in the United States struggle with an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia, with millions more suffering from binge eating disorder. Despite those staggering figures, many young women are unaware of the devastating physical and psychological effects of eating disorders.
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Posted on Feb 12th, 2010 |
Portia de Rossi, actress and wife of Ellen DeGeneres, has revealed she is writing a tell-all autobiography. De Rossi, who had major roles in the television shows “Ally McBeal” and “Arrested Development,” and currently stars in “Better Off Ted,” suffered from anorexia in the late 1990s, dropping to only 84 pounds.
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Posted on Feb 4th, 2010 |
After battling anorexia and bulimia, Lisa Himmel teamed up with her mother, Sheila, to write a book about her experience.
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Posted on Feb 1st, 2010 |
The UK’s Mirror reports that record numbers of school-age girls are being treated for eating disorders. Last year, girls under 18 were admitted to NHS hospitals with problems related to anorexia and bulimia 794 times, a 55 percent increase from 2004-2005, which saw 512 cases.
Girls aged 15 were the most likely to need treatment for their condition, with 194 admissions in the age group last year. But eating disorders have been diagnosed in girls as young as eight.
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Posted in Research & News
Posted on Jan 29th, 2010 |
Reality television icon, actress, and mother of two Nicole Richie recently talked with Marie Claire in hopes of dispelling rumors that she was once anorexic. The 28 year old, who was once a size 0, caused some fans to worry in 2006 when photos of her alarmingly thin frame in a bikini surfaced. At the time, she told Vanity Fair, "I know I’m too thin right now. I’m not happy with the way I look right now."
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Posted on Jan 25th, 2010 |
Although eating disorders are most common in teenagers and young adults, they can also occur in younger children. To learn more about this, CNN’s Living Well Expert Dr. Jennifer Shu consulted Sari Fine Shepphird, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and author of "100 Questions and Answers about Anorexia Nervosa."
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Posted on Jan 22nd, 2010 |
In 1988, Abby Ellin was a junior in college, studying abroad in the Middle East and Europe. Describing herself as a chubby adolescent who spent six summers at “fat camp,” she was terrified of gaining weight, although she loved to eat. She writes in the New York Times that “to maintain some semblance of control” she would divide her eating into “Food Days” and “Nonfood Days,” or days when she ate vast amounts and those when she restricted her caloric intake “with military precision.”
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